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Mohamed Atta

1968 - 2001

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Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta (Arabic: محمد محمد الأمير عوض السيد عطا; 1 September 1968 – 11 September 2001) was an Egyptian terrorist hijacker from al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he was the ringleader of the September 11 attacks and served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, which he crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated suicide attacks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Atta has received more than 4,726,569 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Mohamed Atta is the 121st most popular extremist (up from 148th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 372nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mohamed Atta ranks 121 out of 209Before him are Robert Hansen, Mary Ann Cotton, Joseph Bonanno, Dokka Umarov, Baruch Goldstein, and Belle Gunness. After him are Aslan Usoyan, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Joseph Valachi, Albert Anastasia, and Josef Blösche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Mohamed Atta ranks 51Before him are Abdul Ghani Baradar, Lisa Marie Presley, Terry Crews, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, Patricia Arquette, and Sabrina Salerno. After him are Tracy Morgan, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Susan Wojcicki, Sadyr Japarov, Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, and Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh. Among people deceased in 2001, Mohamed Atta ranks 79Before him are Gloria Foster, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Nikos Sampson, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Isao Inokuma, and Alexey Maresyev. After him are Katharine Graham, Mirza Delibašić, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Jaroslav Drobný, Renato Carosone, and Michel Marcel Navratil.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Mohamed Atta ranks 307 out of 582Before him are Pope Anianus of Alexandria (100), Merneferre Ay (-1650), Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam (850), Boutros Ghali (1846), Hassan Fathy (1900), and Carpocrates (100). After him are Alexander II Zabinas (-190), Al-Mansur Ali (1242), Omar Abdel-Rahman (1938), Nepherites I (-490), Anastasius Sinaita (630), and Thutmose (-1500).

Among EXTREMISTS In Egypt

Among extremists born in Egypt, Mohamed Atta ranks 2Before him are Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951). After him are Omar Abdel-Rahman (1938) and Abu Ayyub al-Masri (1968).